I regularly monitor that thread. I'm well aware that passport processing processing times are back to normal.

You wrote that: "It’s not really fare to use what happened nearly 4 years ago as being the current situation." I simply pointed out that there were long delays as recently as this past summer. My "expedited" renewal with express mailing in July, 2023, took a month. People who did not pay for expedited processing experienced processing times as long as 12-13 weeks. It's now down to under two weeks for expedited renewals and as little as three weeks for regular renewals.